Peoples

Religion

Challenges for Prayer

The less-evangelized almost all adhere to some form of Christianity, but many are without a clear gospel witness:

a)The outer island groupsare largely Catholic with little evangelical presence. The Marquesans, Mangarevans and Tuamotuans cannot easily understand the related Tahitian language, and have little of the Bible in their own languages.

b)Significant emigrationfrom the outer islands to Tahiti gives opportunities for Islanders to encounter Jesus in Papeete, but those who move are too often lost to the Church.

c)The Chinesehave a few Protestants, Catholics and Chinese ethnoreligionists, but most Chinese are effectively secular.

d)The French communitylives a life apart, having minimal contact with any Church.